Roosevelt's aims were: -to provide relief for those in need, -rebuild confidence in banks and in shares, -and to get people working again

The Hundred Days: a period in 1933 when the USA passed a lot of emergency laws

LOOK AT TIMELINE OF NEW DEAL POLICIES BY ROOSEVELT

Alphabet Agencies: agencies set up to tackle particular problems

Alphabet Agencies: agencies set up to tackle particular problems

LOOK AT FOR/AGAINST TABLE FOR THE NEW DEAL!!

The Second New Deal

Social Security Act- old age pensions and unemployment benefit

Wagner Act- replaced NRA. Employees were allowed to join a trade union if they wanted to.

Works Progress Administration (WPA)- funded more work programmes

Resettlement Act- built housing for the homeless in towns and countryside.

In 1935 the Supreme Court ruled some New Deal acts and agencies unconstitutional and against the law (such as NRA and AAA). The Supreme Court was mostly anti-Roosevelt and were Republican judges who were old men

Roosevelt tried to pack the Court with his own supporters but this was defeated in Congress. However, as judges died or retired he replaced them with his supporters.